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1970s
Andy Gibb's, "Shadow Dancing"
Misheard Lyrics:
Do me right - take me all through the night
Shadow Dancing, baby you do it right
Do me wrong, dragging across the floor
Shadow dancing, oh, don't say nothing wrong.
Original Lyrics:
Do it light, taking me through the night
Shadow dancing, baby you do it right
Give me more, drag me across the floor
Shadow dancing, all this and nothing more
Human League's, "Almost Medieval"
Misheard Lyrics:
Soft lenses, groovy glasses!
Original Lyrics:
Soft lenses, grow to glasses
Phoebe Snow's, "Harpo's Blues"
Misheard Lyrics:
I wish I was a soccer fan
Original Lyrics:
I wish I was a soft refrain
Scorpions', "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Let me take you far away, you'd like on holy day.
Original Lyrics:
Let me take you far away, you'd like a holiday.
Scorpions', "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
You'd like of all it takes
Original Lyrics:
You'd like a holiday
Scorpions', "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
You'd like of all the time
Original Lyrics:
You'd like a holiday
 
1980s
Cocteau Twins', "My Love Paramour"
Misheard Lyrics:
Should've had my fix for
My love paramour who is out on a wing
Original Lyrics:
Two different fates
My love paramour ooze out and away
Gloria Estefan's, "Get On Your Feet"
Misheard Lyrics:
Deep in your heart is the Adam's touch
Original Lyrics:
Deep in your heart is the answer
Hall & Oates', "Everytime You Go Away"
Misheard Lyrics:
Every time you go away,
You take a piece of meat with you.
Original Lyrics:
Every time you go away,
You take a piece of me with you.
Kim Wilde's, "Never Trust a Stranger"
Misheard Lyrics:
You left me dos tres
Not a noodle or a sync
Original Lyrics:
You left without trace
Not a note or a single goodbye
Scorpions', "Can't Live Without You"
Misheard Lyrics:
Cat lips, cat lips without juice.
Original Lyrics:
Can't live, can't live without you.
Scorpions', "No One Like You"
Misheard Lyrics:
Girl, it's been a long time that we've been apart
Much too long for a man, who is a tart?
Original Lyrics:
Girl, it's been a long time that we've been apart
Much too long for a man who needs love
Scorpions', "No One Like You"
Misheard Lyrics:
I can't mention the things we do
Original Lyrics:
I imagine the things we'll do
Scorpions', "No One Like You"
Misheard Lyrics:
I get wet for the nights with you
Original Lyrics:
I can't wait for the nights with you
Scorpions', "No One Like You"
Misheard Lyrics:
Just you mention the girl from this song;
She'll take all my sorrows away.
Original Lyrics:
Just imagine you'd come through this door,
You'd take all my sorrow away.
The Cars', "Bye Bye Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's quarantine sky
Original Lyrics:
It's orangey sky.
 
1990s
Celine Dion's, "The Power of Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
I hold on to your whole body
In fear of the truth you mend
Original Lyrics:
I hold on to your whole body
And feel each move you make
Green Day's, "Hitchin' a Ride"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hey General!
Original Lyrics:
Hitchin' a ride
Green Day's, "Hitchin' a Ride"
Misheard Lyrics:
Numb-chucky's getting stale
Original Lyrics:
Cold turkey's getting stale
Green Day's, "Hitchin' a Ride"
Misheard Lyrics:
The well that inebriates the cat
Original Lyrics:
The well that inebriates the guilt
Green Day's, "Hitchin' a Ride"
Misheard Lyrics:
The well that inebriates the cat
Original Lyrics:
The well that inebriates the guilt
Green Day's, "Hitchin' a Ride"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's a trout in the fountain of youth
Original Lyrics:
There's a drought at the fountain of youth
Green Day's, "Hitchin' a Ride"
Misheard Lyrics:
We went to happy house, I say oh no.
Original Lyrics:
Need a lift to happy hour, I say oh no.
Green Day's, "Hitchin' a Ride"
Misheard Lyrics:
We went to happy house, I say oh no.
Original Lyrics:
Need a lift to happy hour, I say oh no.
 
2000s
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
All across the Alienation
Original Lyrics:
All across the alien nation
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
And can you hear the sound of the stereo?
Original Lyrics:
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't wanna be an American Indian!
One nation controlled by leukemia
And the H and H gonna stare at ya!
It's calling out to Indian America
Original Lyrics:
Don't wanna be an American idiot!
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria!
It's calling out to idiot America
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't wanna be an Americanadian!
Original Lyrics:
Don't wanna be an American idiot!
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't want a nation of GaGa new media
Original Lyrics:
Don't want a nation under the new media
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
I am some druggy in a band with some media.
Original Lyrics:
Don't want a nation under the new media.
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
In television creeps of tomorrow
Original Lyrics:
In television dreams of tomorrow
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
In television treeps out tomorrow
Original Lyrics:
In television dreams of tomorrow
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
Well, maybe I'm the f***ing America
Original Lyrics:
Well, maybe I'm the faggot America
Green Day's, "American Idiot"
Misheard Lyrics:
Well, maybe I'm the gas-set America
Original Lyrics:
Well, maybe I'm the faggot America
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Another protester has crossed the line to find,
The money's on the herbicide
Original Lyrics:
Another protester has crossed the line to find,
The money's on the other side
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bang bang goes the broken class act,
Kill all the f***s that don't agree.
Triumphant fires setting fires,
Is not a way that's meant for me.
Original Lyrics:
Bang bang goes the broken glass,
And kill all the fags that don't agree.
Trials by fire setting fire,
Is not a way that's meant for me.
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Every sound of the fall of rain
Coming down like an armored candle flame
The shame, the ones who died without a name

I bet your dreamin' different from the ho-ho lies
It's just the dawning of the rest of our lights
On all the time!
Original Lyrics:
Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame
The shame, the ones who died without a name

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hear the sound of the Polaroid
Original Lyrics:
Hear the sound of the falling rain
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hear the sound of the bowling lane
Original Lyrics:
Hear the sound of the falling rain
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
I beg for cream and if you're from there I'll arise
Original Lyrics:
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
I beg to dream and differ from the hall of lice
Original Lyrics:
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
I like to skinny dip
Original Lyrics:
I beg to dream and differ
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
Kill all the f***s with donut creme!
Original Lyrics:
Kill all the fags that don't agree!
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
On board the train
Original Lyrics:
On holiday
Green Day's, "Holiday"
Misheard Lyrics:
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives,
On Novacaine
Original Lyrics:
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives,
On holiday
Josh Groban's, "To Where You Are"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I believe that ancients believe
Original Lyrics:
And I believe that angels breathe
Linkin Park's, "1 Stp Klosr"
Misheard Lyrics:
During this rightly concur of what we like.
Original Lyrics:
During this night, we can cut up what we like.
Misheard Lyrics:
A celebrated man amongst the fernies
Original Lyrics:
A celebrated man amongst the gurneys
 
misc
Pink's, "Trustfall"
Misheard Lyrics:
Just fall baby
Original Lyrics:
Trustfall baby
William S Burroughs', "We See the Future...."
Misheard Lyrics:
We see the future through the market of the people
Original Lyrics:
We see the future through the binoculars of the people

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